If so, then the willingness of any given government to keep it in check is clearly not. Looking at the list, there seems to be a lot of correlation between governments that see the citizenry as masters to be served and those that see them as sheep to be shorn. The U.S. is slowly trending toward the latter direction.
One concern in the U.S. is that many of those big-money donors are focusing on ways to privatise lower-level bureaucracies, opening the door to bribery and other petty corruption that’s currently difficult with state and federal employees.
